George W. Johansen, Sexual Predator and Stake President
Another CS Member Exposed
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In March 2026, IRA submitted a GRAMA request with the Emery County Sheriff’s Office for all records pertaining to George Wilford Johansen, the former Mount Pleasant Stake President and owner of George W. Johansen Construction. George Johansen is named in the Hamblin Victims Statements, and he is identified as a a rapist and a participant in the abuse of Katie Hamblin, aka Kate Baxter.
Johansen’s involvement with David Lee Hamblin’s Spring City CS group was repeated and extensive. At the time he was alleged to have raped Katie Hamblin in a CS Gathering Ceremony, Johansen was on the cusp of being called to a stake presidency. He was also an active attendee and participant in sweat lodge ceremonies where satanic rituals were performed.
The allegations would not mean much by themselves, but paired with Johansen’s documented sexual assault of his female employee, the allegations take on new credibility. In October 2008, that employee decided to file a report alleging sexual abuse by George W. Johansen, her boss. According to the employee, the main assault took place on October 6, 2008, after lunch. Johansen had taken her to the courthouse in Castle Dale to drop off a bid, but after the drop-off, Johansen pulled her shorts open while he was driving to see what color her panties were.
This was followed by Johansen reaching into the front of her shorts and touching the top of her vagina.
Under Utah’s criminal code, Johansen’s actions were consistent with the forcible sexual abuse statute.
The report details Johansen’s progressively inappropriate conduct, including asking his employee about her bra size and sex life, and discussing the personal grooming habits of his employee with respect to shaving her pubic hair. Like many other women, the employee felt like she had to tolerate the behavior because she was a single mother with bills to pay. The price of holding down a job involved tolerating boorish and even criminal conduct from her employer.
That is, until an October day in 2008, when Johansen’s female employee had enough of being pawed at and solicited by her married boss and former stake president. George Johansen’s wife Barbara Ann is not mentioned in the Hamblin Victims Statement, nor is she mentioned in the police report. What is mentioned is George W. Johansen’s bizarre aside that he was struggling with erectile dysfunction. Johansen asked the investigating officer interviewing him to shut off the recorder when he disclosed his erectile dysfunction as a 67 year old nearly 300 pound man.
There is no evidence that the Emery County Sheriffs Office was aware of additional allegations against George W. Johansen, including the allegations dating back to the mid- to late-Nineties. The court records contain nothing that would indicate that the Emery County prosecutors were aware of additional allegations against Johansen, either. What is stunning is the sheer speed with which Emery County moved to prosecute Johansen, who was facing a criminal information in the case a mere 20 days after the victim reported the incident. Less than seven months later, Johansen filed a plea of no contest to third degree attempted forcible sexual abuse and accepted a deal from the prosecutors.
If you have tips or information about the individuals named in the Hamblin Victims Statements, you can reach IRA at goel@investigationsinritualabuse.com.
